The Bearing Fruit
March 15, 2020
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Washington
Mennonite
▪ Offering for 3/1/2020: Regular Offering:
$4,146.00; Coins for Camp: $117.46; Saturday Kitchen: $20.00
▪ Quilters
and knotters will meet on Wed., March 18 at church at 10
a.m. Bring a sack lunch!
Crooked Creek Christian Camp
▪ Crooked Creek Christian Camp is hiring for kitchen assistants,
housekeeping staff, and lifeguards. Visit our website http://www.crookedcreekcamp.org/employment-opportunities.html for
more information and to fill out an application.
Hillcrest Academy
▪ Stories Needed | For the
75 year anniversary cookbook we have your recipes, now we need your
stories! Please send us food related school stories. Stories about a
particular cook, a particular lunch menu item, a favorite team meal,
stories about the chili supper or pork supper or apple fritter booth, stories
about the 'Center Room'...anything. Thanks for your help in making this
cookbook a sentimental keepsake for our community. Please email stories to recipes@
hillcrestravens.org.
▪ Host Families Needed | Hillcrest Academy is looking for families to host 4 potential
international students for the 2020-21 school year. If you are interested in
being a host family, please contact Rebecca Beachy Miller at rbeachymiller@
Central Plains Conference
▪ Central
Plains Prayer Request: Pray
for Central Plains congregations that are in the midst of pastoral searches.
Pray for search committees and for candidates looking for churches, that God
may guide the search process according to God's will.
▪ Please
join MCC Central States in our first Young Adult Immigration Learning Tour.
May 25-29th, MCC invites young adults to South Texas to raise awareness
about the increasing migrant deaths, militarization, environment degradation,
effects on habitat and effects on sister communities near the border wall along
the Mexico/U.S. border. Participants will increase their understanding and
knowledge of the social, economic, political and biblical/theological
significance of migration in border communities, including advocacy tools and
capacity building to engage others on borderlands and migration issues. Some
grants may be available to interested participants with financial need. For
registration or to inquire about a grant, please contact Abby Endashaw,
720-500-3413, abbyendashaw@mcc.org. Final Registration Deadline
April 1, 2020.
▪ Attention
all MCC Alumni, make plans now to join MCC at an alumni weekend at Rocky
Mountain Mennonite Camp, August 7-9! Bring your family for a relaxing weekend
at camp, lots more information and a link to the camp registration is now
available at mcc.org/alumni-gathering. Questions, please reach out to jordanpenner@mcc.org
or 316-727-6837. We’re already looking forward to a fun weekend together this
summer!
▪ Enough-ness: finding contentment and learning to live in it – Everence Webinar seven of a ten week series – Mar. 11, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. EST. Explore the discipline and grace of contentment. Together, we will share ways we might live in the freedom of enough, rather than the anxiety of too much or too little. See Everence website to register.
▪ Mennonite
Mission Network Prayer Request: The first professors and administrative personnel to serve Benin Bible
Institute when it opened its doors in 1994 are nearing retirement age.
Mennonite Mission Network requests prayer for the next generation of teachers
and administrators to respond to God’s call, and the resources to train them.
▪ MC USA Announcement:
#MennoSnapshots Douglas Kaufman, a director of pastoral
ecology at Goshen College's Center for Sustainable Climate
Solutions, feels called to engage Mennonite churches on climate
change. Read why he is so committed to this calling in his blog, "Climate
change as a spiritual crisis." http://men
noniteusa.org/spiritualclimate
Area Announcements
▪ Smoked BBQ Pulled Pork Dinner Today: Come on out to Upper
Deer Creek Church today, from 11:30 - 1:00 for a
delicious pork dinner in support of our Youth.Their annual fundraiser supports
various mission endeavors, trips, etc. Cost is on a donation basis.
▪ Come hear the Bethel College (North
Newton, Kan.) Concert Choir at West Union
Mennonite Church, 3253 305th St, Parnell on Thursday, March 26 at 7 p.m.
This concert is part of the choir’s annual spring break tour. Under the
direction of Dr. William Eash, the 50-person mixed voice choir sings a variety
of sacred choral music from the 15th century to today. The concert is free and
open to the public; a freewill offering will be taken.
▪ On
Sat. April 25th, a live simulcast of Priscilla Shirer will be held at Lower
Deer Creek Mennonite Church from 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. Priscilla, daughter of
pastor Tony Evans, is an author, a popular Bible Study leader and conference
speaker. Plan to join us at this FREE event called "Going Beyond"
and be inspired and challenged in your walk with Jesus. Talk to Connie Knepp
(319-331-2547) or Dorothy Miller (319-325-9357) if you have any questions. For
registering click here: https://forms.gle/CYk3DNus9THDz8UL6 or go
to https://ldcmc.org/ and click on ‘Events’ and ‘Going Beyond
LIVE’.
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